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H. B, FORD.

CONDENSER FOR ICE MACHINES.

No. 363,455. Patented May 24, 1 887.

on 0 M M M WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. roan, or NEW roan, n. Y.,

ASSIGNOR TO PERKINS 8t \VELSH, OF

SAME PLACE.

CONDENSER FOR ICE-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,455, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed October 13, 1886. Serial No. 216,108.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY B. FORD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in Gendensers for Ice-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for condensing the gas which has been produced from a volatileliquid during the process of re- 10 frigeration in an ice-machine back into liquid form. Such a gas, for example, is obtained by the evaporation of liquid sulphurous, oxide.

My invention consists more particularly in the construction and arrangement of the ap- 5 paratus'hercinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my condenser. Fig. 2 is a transversesection on the line as x of Fig. 1.

Similarlettersof referenceindicate like parts.

A represents the casing of the apparatus, which may be of any desired size or shape. The incoming gas to be condensed enters by the pipe B, thence passes to a chamber, 0, and from said chamber proceeds through the system of return-tubes D. Said tubes are placed in a vertical plane, and between them are vertical partitions E. I here show three returntubes D; but the number of said tubes is not.

material, and may be increased or diminished in accordance with the desired capacity of the apparatus. The tubes may be of copper or other suitable metal, and the intervening partitions E are also of metal. The tubes may terminate in a chamber, F, with which cominunicates an outflow-pipe, L, for the liquid resulting from the condensation.

Withinthe casing A, and on each side of the system of tubes D, is arranged apparatus for projecting upon said tubes sprays or jets of a refrigerated liquid-such, for example, as cold water. I show here a series of roses, G, communicating with supplypipes H, from which roses the liquid is thrown upon the tubes D, suitable pressure being applied to the liquid 5 by a force-pump or any other known device. (Not represented.) I do notlimit myself to this means or mode of projecting the sprays of cold liquid,because variousotherforms of apparatus for the purpose are well known and may be substituted for the contrivance here shown.

Thus I may employ jets of liquid produced by atomizers, using an air-blast.

On each side of the tube system is supported an inclined trough or gutter, I; but one pair return-tubes connecting of gutters is here represented, the same being disposed below the three upper tubes of the system. The object of this gutter is to catch the liquid which has been thrown upon the three upper tubes, and which has become warmed by absorption of heat from said tubes and the gas therein contained, and to conduct it away to an outtlow pipe or gutter, J. In this way the aforesaid warmed liquid is pre vented from reaching the lower three tubes of the series. The cold liquid which meets said 55 lower three tubes is received upon the floor of the casing, and thence runsoft by the outflow pipe or gutter K. The advantage ofthe aforesaid construction is, that each division or section of the condenscrtuhe system (a division here consisting of three tubes) is cooled independently of the other divisions or sections.

I show here buttwo divisions; but of course if the tubes forming the system are more numerous there may be more divisions, and hence more gutters 'I, a gutter bcing provided for each division. So, also, adivisiou may contain a greater or less number of tubes than'three.

The operation of my condenser is as follows: The gas, as above stated, enters by the conduit B and circulates through the tubes D. \Vhile traversing said tubes it is refrigerated, and hence its heat is abstracted by the sprays of cold liquidwhich meet the exterior of the tubes, and in this way the gas becomes condensed into liquid form. This liquid escapes from the tubes into the chamber F, and finally is removed by the pipe L. The presence of the chambers O and F is not material, because the gas may be led directly into the tubes D and 9 from said tubes directly into the outflow-pipe L.

I claim In a condenser for ice-machines, the combination of a casing, an inlet, a receiving-chamber and an outflow-chamber, and a series of the said chambers, vertical partitionsbetween said tubes, meanssuch as roses and pipes conducting liquid thereto under pressure for proj ectingthe liq uid upon each side of said return-tubes, the I00 inclined troughs or gutters extending lengthwise of the tubes on each side of the Vertical partitions, and serving to catch and conduct away the water falling from above, and the discharge-gutters, substantially as set forth.

\Vitnesscs: HENRY 13. FORD.

JAMEs S. GREvEs, PARK BENJAMIN; 

